Hallam Photo Stitch

[Mike Peregrine]

Don't know why I never got around to doing this - but this is a stitched image of 5 photos taken of the meso of the Hallam storm on 5/22/04 as it was near Bruning, NE crossing hwy 81. The tornado was touching down off and on at this point (likely off as I took this image) ... wish I could post a larger version of it, and likely will the next time I update my own website, where much larger images are permitted. The detail in the full version is pretty neat ... what I like is being able to actually see the inflow band on the right side of the image.

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[Nic Wilson]

That's a great panoramic view of the historic Hallam supercell Mike! After seeing that I am sure that everyone will try to emulate that photo technique. Definitely a great example to point out some of the textbook features of a supercell and will make quite the banner for your website. I am sure Ken Dewey of UNL and others with strong interest in that event would love to see that photo as well.

 

[Tony Laubach]

That's awesome, dude!!! :shock:

 

[Bob Schafer]

Awesome, indeed, Mike!

I had never before even thought of trying to produce such imagery. I will now.

That image, to me, sort of makes that storm look "compact". Not LP, just "tightly wrapped", I guess. Would you say that was the case, or is it just something of an illusion from the panoramic image?

Congrats on a really amazing pic.

Bob

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Awesome stuff man!!

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Thanks ... if I were to print the image out full size it would be four feet long ... now that would be interesting. Playing with it some more - trying to get the exposures to match in the different images so you don't notice the stitches so much.

Bob - this image spans probably about five or so miles of the horizon I would say (I'm really only missing one or maybe two shots to have been able to make this a full 360 degree view) ... but yeah, looks wrapped up doesn't it. This was probably taken about 10-15 minutes before it started producing the big tornadoes. The RFD was really starting to get its act together here.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Impressive rotation mike :shock: that's really amazing :wink:

 

[Jason Montano]

That is a great job putting that together Mike. Man that storm was a duzy when it was first spinning up. That photo(s) really does the storm justice.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Yeah that is really damn sweet!

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Mark Humpage, who is evidently very well-versed in handling panoramas, very graciously offered to help me clean up the image and re-work a final copy. Incredible what a dramatic improvement he made!

Thanks so much Mark! - - (And Verne ... still working on our other project ... don't give up on me yet!)

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[Darin Brunin]

Mike,

That is amazing. Great job to you and the people who helped you touch it up a little. It looks so good to me that I think even Hollingshead is going to be a little jealous.

:lol:

Darin

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Originally posted by Darin Brunin
It looks so good to me that I think even Hollingshead is going to be a little jealous.

ha - well thanks, but I don't think Mike H will be too concerned ... everytime I see his photo of the Coin storm I still throw up a little.

 

[Darin Brunin]

Don't we all, Don't we all. I guess that's the reason why I think I have the flu everytime I visit his website.

 

[Joe Zemek]

Phenomenal! What a beast!

Mike: what focal length did you use here? You did a great job avoiding frame curvature by taking more and smaller pix, but focal length is good to know as well...

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Hey Joe, thank you ... was using a 50-70mm here on the Digital Rebel.